Corset-steel shield.



.is used.

fans as CORSET-STEEL SHIELD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1914. 'SeriaINo. 849,700.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH M. DHALE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fruitvale, in the county of Alameda and State of California,have invented new and useful Improvements, in Corset-Steel Shields, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an improved shield for corset steels.

Garments in which corset steels are used, as in ladies corsets anddresses, are rapidly deteriorated by the ends of the corset steelswearing through the cloth.

The object of my invention is to provide means for preventing this wear,while not detracting from the flexibility of the corset steel.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of acorset steel equipped with my improved shield; Fig. 2 is a sectionalview of the shield; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modifiedform thereof, the corset steel being omitted; Fig. l is a View similarto Fig. 3 of a further modification; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1of a further modification; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views similar to Fig. 3of further modifications; Figs. 9 and 10 are perspeotive views offurther modifications.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a corset steel, the term beingused in the general sense to include an elastic device of this charactermade of steel, whale-bone or any other suitable material. In order toprevent the end of the steel wearing against the cloth of the garment, Iprovide a shield therefor in which said end can slide. This shield maybe of many different forms according to size and to the conditions underwhich it In Figs. 1 and 2 it consists of a piece of sheet metal 2, ofwhich the marginal portions are bent over or toward one another to formflanges 3, between which and the main portion 2 of the sheet the steelis retained and can slide. The sheet has a longitudinally extendingportion 4, bent over-- and secured to said main portion 2 by an eyelet5, through which the shield can be secured to the cloth by stitching. Itwill readily be seen that by this shield the wear upon the cloth isavoided, since the end of the steel does not come in contact with thecloth. At the same time the elasticity of-the steel is not diminished,since the end of the steel can slide longitudinally in the shield.

In Fig. 3 said main portion is cut out in the middle as shown at 6.

In Fig. 4 the shield is made like that in Fig. 3 except that the flanges3 are brought closer together.

In Fig. 5 is shown a device of the same form as that in Fig. 1 withanother form of securlng means instead of the eyelet 5. In this form twoloops are formed by means of a piece of wire 7, the ends of which areclamped between the steel and its flanges,

while an extension 8 from the shield is bent over the middle portion ofthe wire and secured by a rivet 9. These loops serve the same purpose asthe eyelets in Figs. 1 to 1.

Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate shields similar in general form to those inFigs. 3 and 4; respectively, but with the loops for stitching formedlike that in Fig.5.

In Fig. 8 is illustrated another mode of forming the loop forstitching,-namely, by bending an extension 11 back on itself andriveting it, as shown at 12.

Fig. 9 illustrates another modification of the invention in which a hole13 is formed through the sheet ofmetal, and a terminal extension 14 isbent over to form a smooth end for the shield.

Fig. 10 illustrates another modification in which the shield is formedfrom a thimbleshaped device by pressing together the two sides of itsclosed end and forming a hole 17 therethrough, and pressing the sides ofthe remainder almost together to form a guide 16.

It is understood that the shields may be made of any suitable sheetmaterial, as sheet steel, celluloid, vulcanite, or the like.

. The distinctive feature of my invention is that it can be pushedlengthwise within a long, narrow guideway formed in the cloth, and ofwidth just great enough to receive the steel, until the shield on oneend thereof arrives at the end of the guideway; then the shield at theother end can be placed in the other end of the guideway, and saidshields when so adjusted in the two ends of the guide-way can be easilysecured thereto by stitching.

I claim A shield for stifieners for corsets and the like, formed ofsheet material curving closely around the edges of the stiffener toguide the latter in its sliding movement in the shield having means forlimiting said Patented June 6,1916.

movement longitudinally in one direction my hand in the presence of twosubscribing and fornaed with a, hole longitudinally be- Witnesses. yondsai limiting means permitting the shield to be secured in the end of thepocket ELIZABETH DHALE' bystitches, through said hole and throughHtnesses: said pocket from the outside. FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set G. M. BALL.

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